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Re: [PATCH] gittutorial: remove misleading note

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 23, 2009, 19:00 UTC
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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
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> In the tutorial Alice initializes the repository, and Bob clones it. So
> Bob can just do a 'git pull', but Alice will need 'git pull <url>
> <branch>'.
>
> The note suggested that the branch parameter is not necessary, which is
> no longer true these days.

So we have a usability regression here. Perhaps we need to fix that instead?

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